02 April, 2017

Western media scripting yet another 'Russian invasion', this time in Libya

The 28
member states of the anti-Russia bloc known as the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), home to over 900 million fact-starved
dwellers, are again grazing at the MSM trough, consuming a meal that
leaves one wondering, ‘Where’s the beef?’

Since
Russophobic stories are a dime a dozen across much of NATO-occupied
territory, you would be forgiven for missing the latest bit of
pseudo-news masquerading as legitimate journalism. According to this
latest lapse into fantasy land, Russia, the Sasquatch beast from the
East, deeply feared yet rarely photographed in the wild, has turned
its attention to Libya. You know, because Russia doesn't have enough
problems already.

According to
a combined report from the Guardian and Reuters, “US officials,
who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Washington (sic) had
observed what appeared to be Russian special operations forces and
drones at Sidi Barrani, about 60 miles (100km) from the Egypt-Libya
border.” The report went on to quote yet more publicity-shy
officials, this time “Egyptian security sources,” who
described a “22-member Russian special forces unit, but declined
to discuss its mission.”

So here we
have, once again, lots of anonymous assumptions but not a single
satellite image, not a single cell-phone picture, not a single
verifiable source with a name badge. This sort of reporting may have
been acceptable in the early 19th century before the advent of
electricity, but certainly not in the high-powered 21st. So what we
have here is more cheap talk to hawk the myth of 'Russian aggression'
and even more military hardware.

Russia,
understandably exasperated with such lame, scurrilous reporting,
responded harshly to the charges. In fact, the Defense Ministry’s
official spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, took the rather unprecedented
step of calling out Reuters by name.

“Some
Western media have been disturbing the public with such reports,
citing anonymous sources for several years now,” Konashenkov
said. “And ever more foolish and indecent with regard to
American intelligence are the words of the ‘source’ quoted by
Reuters, who said that ‘intelligence activity of the United States
into the [actions] of the Russian military are complicated because of
the involvement of contractors and agents in civilian clothes.’”

Egypt also
dismissed the Reuters report.

“There
is no foreign soldier from any foreign country on Egyptian soil,"
Egyptian army spokesman Tamer al-Rifai said, as cited by Reuters, no
less. "This is a matter of sovereignty.”

Now before
we blow a gasket, let’s calmly recall exactly how we got to this
disastrous point in US-Russia relations.